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  Record carrier comprising encryption indication informationUSPTO Application #: 20060239462Title: Record carrier comprising encryption indication information Abstract: The present invention relates to a record carrier (10) for storing user data in sectors (S) and management information (n) associated with said sectors. In order to provide a simple, low-cost, flexible and secure copy protection of the user data when being transmitted over a communication bus (6) of a PC it is proposed according to the present invention that the management information comprises an encryption indication information (M1) indicating that the user data stored in the associated sector (S) are to be encrypted by a read-out device (2) before being transmitted over a communication bus (6). (end of abstract) Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards - Briarcliff Manor, NY, US Inventors: Antonius Adriaan Maria Staring, Boris Skoric, Menno Anne Treffers, Maurice Jerome Justin Jean-Baptiste Maes USPTO Applicaton #: 20060239462 - Class: 380277000 (USPTO) Related Patent Categories: Cryptography, Key Management The Patent Description & Claims data below is from USPTO Patent Application 20060239462. Brief Patent Description - Full Patent Description - Patent Application Claims
[0001] The present invention relates to a record carrier for storing user data in sectors and management information associated with said sectors. The present invention relates further to a read-out device for reading data from a record carrier and a corresponding read-out method. Still further, the present invention relates to a recording device and a corresponding recording method for recording data on a record carrier. Finally, the present invention relates to a computer program for implementing said methods. [0002] Optical disc drives connect with other components in a personal computer (PC) via a communication bus, in particular a so-called PCI-bus. It is easy for hackers to listen to the communication over this bus and to get access to transmitted user data. A so-called bus encryption, according to which user data are encrypted before transmission over the communication bus and decrypted by the receiving component after transmission, is generally used to protect data transmission against eavesdropping. However, bus encryption requires significant computational effort which degrades the performance of application or increases the costs of such systems. The computational efforts could be reduced by not encrypting all user data in all sectors, but only encrypting a few sectors or part of the user data in a sector, or by choosing an encryption algorithm that requires less computational effort. Such measures would, however, weaken the protection. [0003] Since different applications have different security requirements, and a single optical drive has to read and to protect data for many different applications, it is thus a problem to make an optical disc drive or, more generally, to provide a read-out device for reading data from a record carrier, that satisfies all needs with a single bus encryption method. In particular, this flexible security level shall be provided to protect user data during transmission over the communication bus when the user data is recorded on a record carrier, such as a recordable optical disc. [0004] Many copy protection methods have been created to prevent copying of user data. One of these methods is based on so-called re-encryption according to which some sectors of the disc are encrypted and which will be decrypted by the drive before transmitting it via a secure communication channel to another component in a PC. The advantage of re-encryption is that the key used by the drive to decrypt the sector does not leave the drive and is therefore not easily discovered by hackers. However, the decryption of the encrypted sector requires significant computational effort which degrades the performance of the drive or increases the costs thereof. Although the computational effort can be reduced by the same measures as mentioned above, the strength of the protection will be weakened. [0005] Since different applications have different security requirements it is therefore desired to provide a low-cost read-out device that is optimized for the security level of a single application and a general purpose read-out device that provides the right security level for all applications and can read record carriers for all applications. A method is therefore needed by which a general-purpose read-out device can determine if and, preferably, what type of encryption is to be used. Preferably, an additional information indicating if and which kind of decryption is required before encryption, should be provided. [0006] It is thus an object of the present invention to provide a record carrier, a recording device and method as well as a read-out device and method which provide a flexible security level to protect user data during transmission over the communication bus, also when the data is recorded on a record carrier such as a recordable optical disc. [0007] This object is achieved according to the present invention by a record carrier as claimed in claim 1 according to which the management information comprises an encryption indication information indicating that the user data stored in the associated sector are to be encrypted by a read-out device before being transmitted over a communication bus. [0008] A read-out device for reading data from such a record data is defined in claim 7 and comprises a data interpreter for interpreting said management information, an encryption unit for encrypting user data of sectors for which the associated encryption indication information indicates that said user data are to be encrypted and an output unit for outputting said user data. [0009] A recording device for recording data on such a record carrier is defined in claim 10 and comprises: an input unit for receiving user data and a command to record said user data in sectors on a record carrier from a communication bus, [0010] a command interpreter for interpreting said command so as to identify a decryption indication information included therein indicating which parts of the received user data are encrypted and are to be decrypted before recording on said record carrier, a decryption unit for decrypting the parts of said user data for which the associated decryption indication information indicates that they are encrypted and are to be decrypted before recording on said record carrier, and [0011] a write unit for recording said user data in sectors on said record carrier and a management information associated with said sectors comprising an encryption indication information indicating that user data stored in sectors associated with said management information are to be encrypted by a read-out device before transmission over a communication bus. [0012] Corresponding methods are defined in claims 9 and 11. A computer program for implementing said methods is defined in claim 13. [0013] The present invention is based on the idea to signal to the read-out device that particular user data shall be encrypted by the read-out device before they can be transmitted over the communication bus, in particular a PCI-bus of PC. An encryption indication information is thus provided in the management information and associated with all sectors in which user data are stored which shall be encrypted before transmission over the communication bus. This encryption indication information will be read and evaluated by the read-out device which then encrypts the associated user data before they are outputted to the communication bus. The recording device according to the present invention is adapted such that during recording of user data such encryption indication information is assigned to the user data and also recorded on the record carrier for later read-out by the read-out device. Such encryption indication information is written based on a corresponding decryption indication information included in a command received by the recording device along with the instruction to record particular user data on a record carrier. The invention thus provides a simple, flexible and low-cost solution providing copy protection during transmission of user data over a communication bus which are read from a record carrier. [0014] It should be noted that user data shall be understood as including any kind of data that are stored on a record carrier and can be transmitted over a communication bus, i.e. not only include data that are particularly meant for a user, such as audio, video or software data, but also include any other kind of data such as management data or control data. [0015] Preferred embodiments of the invention are defined in the dependent claims. According to a simple embodiment the management information is stored in the sector header of each sector and the encryption indication information is a single bit which is used to trigger encryption of user data stored in the associated sector. However, the management information can be also stored in a separate (additional) sub-code channel besides the normal data channel. [0016] According to further embodiments the management information comprises additional information indicating which part or parts of the user data are to be encrypted, which encryption algorithm is to be used for encryption, which key-hierarchy is to be used for determination of an encryption key to be used for encryption and/or indicating that the user data stored in the associated sectors are to be decrypted by the read-out device before being encrypted again for transmission. Again, these indicators could be single bits stored in the sector header. Preferably, the indication information that triggers bus-encryption is made independent from the indication information that triggers sector decryption because the security requirements for both methods may be different. If the triggers for bus encryption and sector decryption are independent, preferably the integrity of at least the bus encryption trigger is protected. This can be achieved by, e.g., making the sector decryption key dependent on at least the bus encryption trigger (for example XOR or hash the trigger into the key). [0017] The invention will now be explained in more detail with reference to the drawings in which [0018] FIG. 1 shows a block diagram of a PC, [0019] FIG. 2 shows a block diagram of a read-out and recording device according to the invention, [0020] FIG. 3 illustrates a first embodiment of the invention, [0021] FIG. 4 illustrates the first embodiment of the invention with a different parameter setting, [0022] FIG. 5 illustrates a second embodiment of the invention, Continue reading... 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